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Box lOOt{)} - R Wrlh TX 76185 YOU WILL CATCH FISH moreover, had been a third-inning solo homer off the left-field foul screen by Pat Borders-which made it ten post- season games in a row in which the Jays had homered. Great defense, a deep bullpen, home-run power up and down the lineup: these are ingredients that make close wins feel like something more than luck, if you are paying atten- tion. All through this fourth game, by the way, I kept turning my binocu- lars back to the corner of the Atlanta bench where Bobby Cox was standing and staring, and tried to imagine his emotions as he watched the tight- faced, brilliant Jimmy Key smoothly working his way through the Braves batting order. Cox, you see, managed the improving Blue Jays for four years in the early eighties, and Jimmy Key, a ris- ing young lefty, had been the apple of his eye. IN THE NORTH GARDEN I T grows late, and we must cut to the chase, but further attention to the Blue Jays here is not out of place. Their World Championship still feels a little strange, perhaps even in Saskatoon and Chicoutimi, but they have been a base- ball power for some time now, and in fact won more games in the past decade than any other team in the majors. Right to the end, doubts whether they would ever attain the top rung affiicted fans both up there and down here (Alison Gordon, a former beat writer with the Toronto Star, told me that this summer she had heard friends of hers worrying what folks in the States would say if the Jays went all the way), but I trust that a few touches of up-home Toronto base- ball will be preserved now that provin- cialism has been clearly routed-in par- ticular, that wonderfully dopey "O.K., Blue Jay!" ritual, in which pep-rally cheerleaders rush out onto the field to lead the fans in setting-up exercises dur- ing the seventh-inning stretch. Custom and continuity have been a Blue Jay staple ever since the team took fluttering wing in the American League expansion of 1977, and its president Paul Beeston, general manager Pat Gillick, vice-presidents Bobby Mattick and AI LaMacchia, P.R. director How- ard Starkman, and, indeed, the owner- ship itself (Labatt's beer) have been around since the beginning. Cito Gas- ton was a long-term Blue Jay batting in- THE NEW YORKER, DECEMBER 7, 1992 structor when he took up the managenal reins in 1989. It was a charged and paIn- ful moment when some old-timers with very long sefV1ce-Dave Stieb, who has put in fourteen years as a Blue Jay, and Rance Mulliniks, who has put in eleven-were dropped from the post- season roster this year, but fourteen of the players who did make the list had never worn a different uniform. Old baseball virtues like loyalty and job sta- bility and slow talent-horticulture have not been a hallmark of this era of the pastime, and it is both hopeful and ironic that it now should be a Canadian front office that has practiced them so well. Pat Gillick, from whose brow the new champions have sprung, has not hesitated when the daring, high-risk trade has presented itself, such as his bombshell decision in 1990 to part with two extremely popular established stars, Tony Fernandez and Fred McGriff, sending them to the Padres in return for Joe Carter and Roberto Alomar. Toronto is a wealthy franchise, one of the major movers now, and Gillick and Beeston acted quickly last winter to pick up free agents Jack Morris (the M.V.P. of last year' s World Series) and Dave Winfield, at a combined price of six and three-quarter million dollars, specifically with the aim of adding role-model elder players with a burning will to win And then, late in August, they made the short-haul deal for the combative David Cone (a self-described "hired gun"), who has now already been lost to free agency. The Alomar pickup may just turn out to be the trade of a lifetime. At twenty- four, AIomar has five full major-league semesters behind him, and his grades- in hitting (he switches, and batted .310 this year), baserunning, defense, game intelligence, and temperament-are of such monotonous excellence that it al- most seems more interesting to search out some defect, such as his lack of power. But Robbie can crank up on oc- casion (CL the home run against Eckers- ley), and he loves the large occasion. He batted .474 in last year's league playoffs and .423 in this year's, when he was voted Most Valuable Player. He trailed off a bit in the Series-before the final game, that is, when his three hits in- cluded an eleventh-inning single that set up the winning runs. He is a relentless